danmosheim

This is very cool ... i have come close to using this technique, and we do a lot of stuff with photoshop and mockups, but for me the missing piece that you have included is taking a photo of the empty space ...
Here's one of ours using models in a modeled room mockup

http://dorsetcustomfurniture.blogspot.com/2008/05/new-design-project.html

Since that's my desk at the top of this post, I think I ought to maybe say something here. What, I'm not sure ....Here goes ... I wrote the post on the curved front drawers on my blog two years ago and it was a result of trying to make dovetails on curved drawer fronts. Not easy,imho, not worth it. Mark Granfors and I came up with the pegged solution described in the post. It's appropriate for that instance, not appropriate for all instances. The trick is knowing where and when to use each technique that you have taken the time to figure out. We can cut dovetails ... some of us in our sleep ... See this post ...

http://dorsetcustomfurniture.blogspot.com/2009/11/make-box.html

and sometimes a nailed rabbet on commercial slides is the winner. Use them all. Don't judge. As the man said in 1692 ... 'Be careful...Strive to be happy'
Happy Thanksgiving ... Thanks for all your interesting comments. Dialogues and stories keep us engaged ....

sweet piece craig ... beautiful design, excellent choice of materials and first rate execution ... I particularly like the detail you added at the bottom of the leg. It pulls it all together .... gold star for you ... dan

Thanks everyone for your comments ... I'm glad you like the metal base. It was great working with my older son on that. It is pretty heavy but, although we delivered the base in one piece, the 1.5" steel round and the 1/4" flatstock top connector unbolt from the two 'trestles'so you can take it apart if you want to. I'd guess the base weighs about 150 and the top another 75 or so pounds ... It was a fun project start to finish. We're working on a coffee table with a similar slab top now.

Hi Tom ... This happened to one of my clients recently. He lost a good part of his house and we're still cleaning the smoke damaged stuff that didn't burn up completely. i have some good tips on that if anyone's interested ...Here's a link below to my post about it ...

http://dorsetcustomfurniture.blogspot.com/2009/06/linseed-oil-cautionary-tale.html

To bore the holes on the Multirouter, (you could make the same set up for a drill press),we used a .25" router bit that had been commercially sharpened a few times so that the hole it made was less than .25, and about the perfect size for the tensioning hardware. I think we had to redrill the holes slightly larger after boring them on the multirouter so that the fit of the bolts was tight, but not too tight.